Word: dragon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quorum of all the big yachts in U. S. waters. They trailed out toward a buoy nine miles southeast of Brenton's Reef Lightship for the start of the race. Among a fleet of 500 or more, were half a dozen ocean liners, two cruisers H. M. S. Dragon and U. S. S. Minneapolis, 20 or more Coast Guard cutters and Navy destroyers. The Committee boat had already signalled the course when Vincent Astor's Nourmahal with President Roosevelt aboard slid up to the line, received side-boys from Coast Guard and Navy craft. An able and enthusiastic...
...Dragon Murder Case (First National), fifth novel by S. S. Van Dine to be translated into cinema, shows Detective Philo Vance airily investigating the demise of a young man who dives into a swimming pool and fails to come up. Since the young man's host, a Mr. Stamm, is a retired explorer and practicing piscatorialist, there are several possible explanations. The young man may have been swallowed by a dragon, drowned by accident or bored to death by Mr. Stamm's tropical fish. Detective Vance proves that none of these hypotheses is correct. Stamm has dressed himself...
...earlier Vance cinemas, William Powell has been Philo. Since Powell is now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Vance this time is impersonated by Warren William. His performance as a detective is superior to his impersonation of Julius Caesar in Cleopatra but none of the ingredients of The Dragon Murder Case is sufficient to make the picture a puzzle or a shocker. Typical shot: Eugene Pallette, who, no matter who plays Vance, always appears as Vance's stupid police foil, muttering his catch line: "My experience as a criminologist teaches me to suppose...
...those dragon's teeth of Revolution that the year 1930 sowed across South America, the Government of Brazil's broad-browed little Dr. Getulio Dornellas Vargas has proved the lustiest offspring. After four years as an unconstitutional Provisional President, Dr. Vargas last week further stabilized his rule with a new and liberal constitution. It took care of its maker by permitting Dr. Vargas to run for President, but thereafter, as in most South American countries, no President of Brazil may succeed himself...
...years to succeed to that office a second time. Defeated by 20,000 votes, Major Frank M. Dixon, Birmingham lawyer, loudly cried that Graves's victory was a triumph for the long dormant Klan. Not only did Bibb Graves deny the accusation, but the Grand Dragon of the State assured one & all that only six of his Klaverns are now active, none for Graves...